Opinion
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Media Sensationalism On Sushant Singh Rajput Is A Sign Of Helplessness And Frustration
By Prarthana Balasubramanian COVID-19 brought up a plethora of problems within society, some which surfaced with the onset of this pandemic. India’s rising number of infections, the growth rate of cases, inadequate health system, hunger crisis, the border conflict with China, our contracting economy, the future of students,...
Trump Wants The Supreme Court, Not The People, To Decide The Election
By Mark Gruenberg When the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term on the first Monday in October, the symbol of its most important looming development will not be an individual case but an empty chair draped in black. The chair belonged to the late Justice Ruth...
Modi’s Farm Bills Have Set An Imperialist Agenda In Indian Agriculture
By Prabhat Patnaik The two bills rammed through parliament last week were objectionable in every conceivable sense. The very fact of their being rammed through the Rajya Sabha, without being put to vote despite demands for a division, was grossly anti-democratic. The fact of the centre making unilateral...
Pakistan Opposition Parties Are Finally Rallying Against ‘Miltablishment’
By Sankar Ray The crucial hiatus between the ruling Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice) , and its satellites on the one hand and the Opposition whose main constituents in terms of parliamentary strength are Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Jamiar Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl-ur-Rehman) widens with the...
Bilkis Was Paid Daily Wages, According To Delhi Police Investigation Into Riots
By Arun Srivastava On the day the Time magazine listed Dadi of Shaheen Bagh’ 82-year-old Bilkis, a regular at the anti-CAA protest venue, as one of the top 100 influential people in the world, the Delhi police, “the most imaginative and efficient force in the world, even more...
Chirag’s High Ambitions Fuelling LJP-JD(U) Rift In The Ruling NDA Camp
By Sagarneel Sinha Bihar elections are barely a month away but everything isn’t fine within the ruling NDA camp. If there is an internal tussle between the chief minister Nitish Kumar led JD(U) and the BJP over seat-sharing, there is an open rift that can be easily witnessed...
Bicentenary Tribute To Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
By Pabitra Sarkar On August 5, 2020, an unprecedented incident took place in post- independence India. For the first time, a prime minister of the country had laid the foundation stone of a religious temple. It was Ram Mandir in Ayodhya amidst Corona scare. It was to raise...
Chirag Paswan’s LJP To Seek Votes In The Name Of Narendra Modi, Not Nitish Kumar
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the Bihar Assembly elections are coming closer, the alliances are moving fast and small parties are changing their alliance partner day by day. Jitan Ram Manjhi’s party Hindustani Awam Morcha was with the BJP in the last election. Later he left the NDA and...
Centre Made Naked Attack On Farmers And Workers In Monsoon Session Of Parliament
By Prakash Karat The truncated monsoon session of parliament has been, in every sense, the worst session of parliament ever held, except probably the one during the emergency in 1976 that adopted the 42nd constitutional amendment meant to facilitate an authoritarian regime. What happened in the...
Forced Passing Of Farm Bills In Parliament Is A Sign Of Autocracy
By Krishna Jha Accountability is a sine qua non – an essential condition – to good democratic governance. And the condition for the survival of our democracy is commitment towards our Constitution, the edifice on which stands the country. Today we have been witness to...
Six Months After The Lockdown India Needs To Rethink
By Gyan Pathak Six months have passed since the announcement of lockdown on March 24. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India stood on that date at 564, 10th death was reported from Mumbai, and 37 patients were discharged from hospitals so far. Modi government opted...
Most Famous Divorce In India’s Corporate World Has Taken Place Early This Week
By Anjan Roy Marriages are made in heaven, divorces in courts. A heavenly marriage was divorced in the Supreme Court by Tatas and Mistry family early this week. Tata Sons, the apex holding company of the Tata Group, has offered to buy the 18.3% shareholding of the...
Women Lawyers Are Now Able To Break The Glass Ceiling In Indian Courts
By Megha Katheria The legal fraternity is largely seen as a male bastion with little space for women. Of course, things have changed phenomenally over the years since 1923 when Regina Das’s application for enrolment was rejected by two High Courts of India on grounds of gender....
Gold Is Unrivalled Universal Currency Of The Underworld
By K Raveendran The ongoing investigations into the sensational case of gold smuggling through the diplomatic channel provide a live example of the nexus between gold, drugs, dirty money and havala. All preliminary findings point to a ‘standard operating procedure’ followed across the world by the underworld,...
Total Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons From The World Is Imperative For Global Peace
By Dr Arun Mitra The harrowing experiences shared by the Hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombing at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, make everyone shiver and think how can human being stoop so low as to develop bombs to kill their fellow beings in such large number in such...
Govt Did Not Care For Parliamentary Practices For Forcibly Passing Farm Bills
By Arun Srivastava With Prime Minister, Narendra Modi determined to use the parliament to serve his and his corporate friends’ interest by resorting to the tactics of not allowing the opposition to have its say in the proceedings of the house and denying them their right to...
Anatomy Of Al Qaeda Arrests: Whither Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The arrest of three activists of Al Qaeda from Ernakulam district represents a severe wake-up call for Kerala, which is in the news again albeit for the wrong reasons. An important aspect of the arrests is that the terrorists have stopped operating from...
Bizarre Breaking News Tamaasha Continues In Television News Channels
By Sushil Kuttty When an acclaimed troll with a weekly column in a foreign newspaper – which comes in handy to troll others and justify the act of trolling – writes a book on the beastliness of trolls, it’s time to call for a stop to the shenanigans....
